Ex-lawyer Angela Wallace
was released from jail on $45,000 bail Friday after bond was secured by the
wife of the Los Angeles Superior Court’s top financial officer.

Superior Court Deputy
Executive Officer William Mitchell did not testify but was present in Div. 30
with his wife, Shelle Mitchell, at the bail hearing for Wallace, who was
arrested in court Tuesday on charges of suborning perjury and conspiracy.

Shelle Mitchell told
Commissioner Jeffrey Harkavy that she has been a friend of Wallace for more
than 30 years. She presented a check, bank account data and trust deeds to
secure bond, and said she was joint holder on the documents with her husband.

“Has any of this money
come from Angela Wallace?” Harkavy asked. Mitchell responded that it did not,
and told Harkavy that Wallace would not be reimbursing her for anything.

Mitchell identified
herself as a healthcare consultant for a private company.

Harkavy had William
Mitchell stand, then noted that the two men did not know each other.

The bail amount had been
set previously, but Wallace and her counsel, Milton Grimes, had to show that
the money being posted was not obtained feloniously, as required under Penal
Code Sec. 1275.1

The bail hold applied to
Wallace because she also has been charged with grand theft by embezzlement,
forgery and perjury. She was in court for a pretrial hearing on that matter
when District Attorney investigators arrested her on the new charges Tuesday.

Trial is scheduled to
begin on the grand theft charges today in Dept. 53, district attorney spokeswoman Jane Robison
said. Wallace’s co-defendant, pro per Timothy Mack—who over the course of a
half-dozen pretrial hearings repeatedly rejected Judge Alice Altoon’s warnings
about the perils of representing himself—has now asked for a lawyer. But
Robison said trial is expected to begin on time.

Wallace, 41, had been
free on $150,000 bail while awaiting her trial with Mack, 47, on charges that
they stole $380,044 in insurance proceeds from the two sons of a Los Angeles police officer.

The officer, Shiree
Arrant, died in 2000. Howard Byrdsong, 20, and his 18-year-old brother,
Jontrae, hired Wallace to represent them but complained to prosecutors when
they didn’t get their insurance money. They were later shot to death by a
gunman posing as a postal worker.

The killings are still
under investigation.

Wallace has a long
history of State Bar discipline. She resigned last year with charges pending.

Last week’s arrest stems
from allegations that Wallace convinced a woman named Jackie Parker to testify
under oath at a 1998 State Bar discipline hearing that Parker, not Wallace,
stole $250,000 from a client trust fund.

Parker identified
herself in the hearing as Naomi Campbell, Robison said. Parker has been charged
with perjury and false personation.

William Mitchell could
not be reached for comment Friday.

He became the court’s
finance officer earlier this year, and has had a key role in responding to a
budget crisis that led the court to close courtrooms, eliminate bench officer
positions and lay off more than 200 employees.